Sessional Arts Specialist

Are you a Creative individual looking to change the lives of young people? We have a great opportunity for sessional workers to join the Royal Borough of Greenwich Young Persons Substance Misuse Service helping to deliver creative sessions

You will be a highly motivated and committed individual with excellent experience in creative arts. You are curious and tenacious about your engagement with young people (10-18) and be able to work effectively with members of the Substance Misuse Team.

You will be required for sessional work supporting various interventions and enabling Young People to meet their full potential including submission to various awards using various media.

This is an excellent opportunity to be part of an experienced and skilled team working in a specialised area of Children’s Services. You will make a real difference to children’s lives and add to your career experience.

Hours: sessional as required

For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Russell Wyles; russell.wyles@royalgreenwich.gov.uk 07541900669

Safer recruitment: Royal Borough of Greenwich is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Any roles which involve working with children, young people or vulnerable adults, or roles in which the duties will involve access to sensitive information relating to children, young people or vulnerable adults, the Royal Borough will take up references prior to interview. You should provide details of referees including your current and previous employers, covering the last 5 years. Candidates can request for us not to send a reference request to their current employer prior to interview by emailing us at recruitment@royalgreenwich.gov.uk.

As part of our Safer Recruitment Policy, a full employment history is also required for this role. Please provide a full employment history, together with a satisfactory written explanation of any gaps in employment. Unless otherwise stated, a Basic DBS check will be undertaken as part of the pre-employment checks for successful candidates.

Diversity Statement: Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

High Volume Applications: Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date should there be a high volume of applications received.

DBS: This role requires an Enhanced DBS. (This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act,1974).

Advert Close: All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated.

Full Employment History: A full employment history is required for this role. Please provide a full employment history, together with a satisfactory written explanation of any gaps in employment.

How Applications are Scored: Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statement addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statement section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application.

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Royal Greenwich is committed to being an inclusive employer and we recognise that flexible ways of working are a valuable tool in improving workplace equality. The Council is committed to providing a wide and flexible range of working arrangements including hybrid working for its workforce where service needs allow and we welcome this discussion with prospective applicants. The delivery of high quality services to our residents is at the heart of all we do - all requests for flexible working will be carefully considered in this context and on a service/case basis.